My favorite guitar is a Kamouraska Etude. It has a beautiful tone, but it's big, with large bouts. I usually play it seated, and I use it to accompany other instruments. However, it's hard to get a good singing tone while seated and playing guitar.

The guitar for church is a small classical, and classicals don't accept the buttons for a shoulder strap. It accepts a strap which goes around my neck and hooks into the sound hole. I've made a little pillow to pad the strap where it goes over the back of my neck.

One beauty of my system is that when it's my turn, I simply stand up, hook the hook into the soundhole and am ready to play. We meet in a small chapel in winter, and a special stand would be in the way.

Today I added a refinement - I tied 1/4 elastic through the holes in the zipper pulls and made square knots. These soft, bumpy knots ensure that the metal zipper pulls will not scratch the guitar.